Lafayette bates



L. BATES.

OAR COUPLING.

(No Model.)

No. 333,051. Patented Dec. 22 1885 .75mi Zizzw ZI 7-r0 ire N PETERS, Phflltrhulcgnpher, Walhinglun, D. c

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAFAYETTE BATES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWIS EAVES, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,051, dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed May 8, 1885. Serial No. 164,841. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAFAYETTE Barns, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Couplings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. v

The present invention is an improvement in that class of car-couplings in which the link is coupled in an upright position and by means IO of a laterally-moved pin.

It consists in providing the draw-head with two chambers, one above the other, substantially as represented in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Is Figure l is a side elevation, partly in vertical section, showing the improved coupling in position. The sectional portion is upon the line 1 l of Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is a plan partly in horizontal section, the sectional part being on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the draw-head. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section on thelineA. 4. of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a View in perspective of alink used in connecting one of the present draw-heads with a draw-head of the ordinary type.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A A represent two opposing draw-heads oi the kind under consideration.

The chambers a a, for receiving the coupling-links, are each made comparatively narrow laterally and high vertically. They are adapted to be passed sidewise through the draw-head and links, substantially as represented in the various views of the drawings.

This enables the operator to readily reach the pin at the side of the draw-head.

WVhen two links, 810., are used, the pins are yoked by means of the bar or plate D, which,

between the pins, encircles, or, rather, is adapted to be moved toward and from the side of the draw-head upon a rod, E, which is held in the draw-head and projects laterally therefrom, and at or toward its outer end is pro-.

vided with a shoulderin the form of the plate 5 e. A handle, F, by means of the rods ff, which pass from the handle through the plate 6, is connected with the plate D, and therefore with the coupling-pins. A spring, G, bears at one end against the .plate D and at the other 56 end against the plate 6. The pins can be withdrawn and the link uncoupled by drawing the handle F outward, as represented in Fig.2. This compresses the spring G, and on releasing the handle the spring acts to thrust the coupling'pins back again into the draw-head. One of these devices for operating the coupling-pins is upon one side of the coupling and another upon the opposite side of the coupling, as shown in Fig. 2that is, in opposing 6o draw-heads the devices are upon opposite sides of the'respective draw-heads.

To enable a draw-head of the kind here described to be coupled with a drawhead of the ordinary type, a link, such as shown at H, 6 Fig. 5, is employed. The link has two eyes,

It and h, whose planes are at right angles to each other. With such a link whichever eye is entered in the draw-head A the other eye will be presented flatwise to the opposing 7o draw-head.

I elaim- 1. The combination of thedraw-headsA A, having the chambers a a, the links B B, and the pins 0 0,-said chambers being arranged vertically one above the other, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the draw-head A, having the chambers a a, the pins 0 G, the yoke D, the rod E, having the shoulder e, the handle F, and the spring G, said chambers being arranged vertically one above the other, substantially as described.

Witness my hand.

, LAFAYETTE BATES. Witnesses:

G. D. MOODY, J. W. Home. 

